Spring is my favorite time of year. And, while my main planting will need to wait a few more weeks, I have been enjoying the color of the spring flowers in my gardens.

To bring the spring colors inside, I made some glass table art.

Floral Bowl:

A base of green flower stems was created with cut pieces of glass and vitregraph contour fused together.

To add details, a variety of flowers were made using cut glass with frit details, murrini, freeze and fuse flowers and flamework flowers. The butterfly was dichroic glass that was etched to create the details, white enamel paint was added to create the dots and a handmade butterfly body was made with fused dots and stringer. These design features were contour fused to soften the edges, then placed on the stem base and tack fused together.

The resulting 12″ piece of art was slumped into a bowl shape.

Eden Flower Bowls:

Eden is an innovative fused glass technique by Cristina Grumezescu Schnellboegl (tutorial available on Etsy). I will not describe the details of this technique because it is a paid tutorial, but I used this technique to create really lovely custom glass. The resulting glass was squashed to make it 3mm thick, cut into the shape of a flower, contour fused with added details and slumped into a bowl shape.

Deep Slumped Tulips:

Glass petals were cut and contour fused with frit and flower centers, then slumped over a deep ceramic form and epoxied to a green base.

I am enjoying the lovely spring flowers now in my dining room while waiting a few more weeks to do my spring planting.